Educators, Students, and Civil Rights Advocates Seek Preliminary Injunction in Lawsuit Challenging South Carolina’s Racially Discriminatory Censorship Law, Budget Proviso 1.79

Last night, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) and Tyler Bailey of Bailey Law Firm, LLC filed a preliminary injunction on behalf of South Carolina educators, students, author Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, and the South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, ...

LDF, Co-Counsel Reach Settlement on Behalf of Incarcerated Individuals in Arkansas

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Recently, the Legal Defense Fund (LDF), alongside Disability Rights Arkansas, the ACLU of Arkansas, Professor Omavi Shukur of the University of Maryland, and counsel from Squire Patton Boggs, reached a settlement with the State of ...

LDF Condemns Trump Administration’s Mass Layoffs/Reduction in Force and Threats to U.S. Department of Education

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Yesterday, the Trump Administration announced plans to eliminate nearly half of all positions within the U.S. Department of Education, an extraordinary step toward executing the Project 2025 playbook to weaken federal civil rights enforcement and ...

LDF Condemns Targeting and Criminalization of Protesters Following Arrest of Mahmoud Khalil 

Over the past weekend, Mahmoud Khalil, a recent Columbia University graduate who has participated in campus protests and is a permanent resident of the United States, was arrested by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Mr. ...

In Critical Victory for Georgia Students, Civil Rights Organizations and Diverse Advocacy Community Lead Defeat of Georgia Senate Bill 120

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In a critical victory for Georgia students, a group of civil rights organizations expressed gratitude in the defeat of SB120 in the Georgia Senate on Thursday.  The bill sought to eliminate all diversity, equity, and ...

LDF and Judge U.W. Clemon Applaud Historic Consent Decree Entered by Jefferson County, Alabama School District

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On Monday, March 3, 2025, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama approved and entered a historic Consent Decree in Stout v. Jefferson County Board of Education, a sixty-year-old school desegregation ...

Civil Rights Organizations Call on Georgia Lawmakers to Reject Senate Bill 120

Today, a group of civil rights organizations sent a letter urging Georgia lawmakers to reject Senate Bill 120 (SB120), a proposed bill before the State Legislature which seeks to ban diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility ...

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